Erroneous road signs

[Michael]

^^^ Complete with Candy Cane Street and Rudolph Way!

Google Maps link

[joseph1723]

Here's another one:


Who ever decided that 407 ETR was a King's Highway and should use a crown shield like ON 401 and using helvetica for shield is a big no no.

[CL]

Here's another one:


Who ever decided that 407 ETR was a King's Highway and should use a crown shield like ON 401 and using helvetica for shield is a big no no.

And unfortunately, the font on those shields is worse than Helvetica: it's Arial! Check out that horrible one.

[joseph1723]

And unfortunately, the font on those shields is worse than Helvetica: it's Arial! Check out that horrible one.

Yeah I didn't notice that the font was Arial. I believe that shield a actually a product of the city of Mississauga and not the MTO which explains the weirdness of it. Imho I'll take a clearview shield over this one.

[D-Dey65]

Nearly several years ago, I suggested new CR shields on Interstate 75 at Exit 309 in southern Sumter County, Florida to FDOT District #5. Unfortunatley, they screwed them up.




Sumter County Road 673 goes east and west, and Sumter County Road 476B goes north and south.

Yes, that's my hairy arm in the side-view mirror.  

[Hellfighter]

Way wrong and way too good!

[agentsteel53]

Way wrong and way too good!

.. I don't get it?

and I'm fairly well-versed with roads.  The average audience of the failblog and related sites will have an even harder time figuring out whatever needs to be figured out here.

[froggie]

Might have something to do with the guy who looks like he's gonna nunchuck Hoboken...

(not to mention where Hoboken and Secaucus are in relation to I-76....in other words, not even close...)

[rawmustard]

Might have something to do with the guy who looks like he's gonna nunchuck Hoboken...

(not to mention where Hoboken and Secaucus are in relation to I-76....in other words, not even close...)

Nunchuck? Looks more like he's about to release a hadouken.

[Michael]

EpicWinFTW and FailBlog are both Cheezburger sites.  I go to many of their sites on a regular basis.

[Duke87]

.. I don't get it?

It's a video game joke. Street Fighter and other similar games, specifically (or Megaman X).

"Hoboken" is only a few letters away from "Hadouken" (often misspelled "Hadoken", which is even closer). They're also pronounced somewhat similarly.
As for the arrows and the icon, those are the buttons you press to perform the move. Down, down-forward, Forward+Punch.


Although, I have no idea why that gantry in particular was photoshopped. The actual sign says "Atlantic City", not "Secaucus    Hoboken".

[agentsteel53]

and here I had been starting to think (yes, I thought about this way too much) that down, diagonal, over, and fist was standard New Jersey merging behavior, to be executed in the three miles before the off-ramp!

[corco]

Here's a directional error on 30 East as you exit off I-86 to head into West Pocatello. This should be US-30 EAST towards Pokie



30 second later edit: Whoa- just realized it probably means "30" to "West Pocatello." Still- that's spaced weird.

[Mr. Matté]

Although, I have no idea why that gantry in particular was photoshopped. The actual sign says "Atlantic City", not "Secaucus    Hoboken".

OBTopic: Why does a New Jersey exit have a Pennsylvania number?

[Alps]

Although, I have no idea why that gantry in particular was photoshopped. The actual sign says "Atlantic City", not "Secaucus    Hoboken".

OBTopic: Why does a New Jersey exit have a Pennsylvania number?

The actual exit doesn't.  The sign was erected by the bridge commission.  Blame them for inventing it.

[Alex]

Way wrong and way too good!

And the original was taken by AARoads.

[Hellfighter]

Way wrong and way too good!

And the original was taken by AARoads.

...and it looks like it was photoshopped! Damn, way too good to be true...

[myosh_tino]

and here I had been starting to think (yes, I thought about this way too much) that down, diagonal, over, and fist was standard New Jersey merging behavior, to be executed in the three miles before the off-ramp!

Yeah, I have to admit that sign had me fooled.  When I read your post, I started to think that sequence of arrows and symbols meant to...

1) duck down (down)
2) blindly change lanes (diagonal)
3) pull all the way over to the shoulder (right)
4) get into a fist fight with the guy you cut off when you made your move (fist)

and do it all over the next 3 miles.

[OracleUsr]

Either that, or the guy on the left is from the NJ DOT and is cursing the bad Exit # (which isn't even the highest on a PA interstate, thanks to I-276)

[okroads]

U.S. 22 in Arkansas?


U.S. 59 shield instead of AR 59

[shoptb1]

U.S. 22 in Arkansas?

Wow, while we weren't looking AHTD extended US-22 from Cincinnati, OH down to Greenwood, AR!  

[xonhulu]

Then it got extended further west to Stayton, OR:

[shoptb1]

Then it got extended further west to Stayton, OR:

Newark, NJ to Cincinnati, OH to Greenwood, AR to Stayton, OR....that would be a rather interesting route.  LOL

[mefailenglish]

Visited Gettysburg National Battlefield Park this past weekend.  Most of the signs in the parking area were correct but more than one featured these shields:



Of course, they should be PA 97 and PA 134.

[corco]

I wasn't able to get a good picture because I didn't notice it, but I just caught a glimpse of it out of the margins of one of the pictures I took- here we have a circular highway shield on a stoplight street name panel designating WYO 220. Check out the upper right:

The google street view image is slightly better:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=casper+wy&sll=35.576917,-95.421753&sspn=1.796013,5.410767&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Casper,+Natrona,+Wyoming&ll=42.808426,-106.413713&spn=0.012657,0.042272&z=15&layer=c&cbll=42.808406,-106.413846&panoid=fa7X2VFzP4H6a3rl5l0DkA&cbp=12,153.28,,0,-9.98

I got back up and got a picture of it- the only circle/oval sign I know of in Wyoming